Chapter 143: Sun Victory, Captain of the Cavalry Company
On June 5, Zhang Dabiao took the first battalion back to the regiment headquarters for supplies. Liu Gen saw Zhang Dabiao. After a few words in a hurry, Zhang Dabiao left again.
Liu Gen could see obvious fatigue on Zhang Dabiao's face. Obviously, the battle on the front line was not easy. Even Zhang Dabiao, a fierce general, was under a lot of pressure. Li Yunlong wanted to go to the front line to lead the soldiers to fight, but
Now that we are engaged in guerrilla warfare, Li Yunlong has no good solution when he reaches the front line.
However, the information he learned from the brigade commander also let Li Yunlong know that a large-scale battle with the Japanese would not be too far away, and the brigade commander was also well prepared to deal with the Japanese! The Japanese have a huge appetite, and they are in the east and south of the base area.
, troops mobilized by the Japanese were found in three directions to the north.
The development of the Eighth Route Army's base areas made the Japanese feel a great threat. At the same time, the Eighth Route Army continued to launch raids on railways in various places, making the Japanese hard to guard against! Even though the Japanese continued to strengthen the implementation of cage tactics, the actions of the Eighth Route Army's units made the Japanese hard to guard against.
The cage tactics failed to have the desired effect. Especially when the newly built Nanguan Railway Station was destroyed, the Japanese became even more angry.
Under the organization of Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army in North China, this encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army base area was launched. Yoshio Shinozuka made sufficient preparations for this encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army base area and mobilized the independent mixed unit
3. The main force of the 9th and 16th brigades, the first part of the 26th and 41st divisions, together with the puppet troops, total about 25,000 people!
When Li Yunlong learned such news from the brigade commander, he also understood that the Japanese actions this time were not small. After the Japanese Army Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka took office as the commander of the 1st Army, he organized many attacks on the Eighth Route Army base areas.
Encirclement and suppression.
Although Yoshio Shinozuka organized many encirclement and suppression campaigns, he still failed to win the campaign. Instead, each campaign resulted in heavy Japanese casualties! This time, Yoshio Shinozuka once again organized an encirclement and suppression campaign against the Eighth Route Army base area, so that all departments of the Eighth Route Army were well prepared.
stand up.
The Japanese's independent mixed brigade was the local garrison force of the Japanese army. It could not compare with the Japanese's standing divisions in terms of firepower and mobility. Generally speaking, the Japanese's independent mixed brigade had jurisdiction over 5 independent infantry brigades, and also had jurisdiction over 4
Or 6 independent infantry brigades. The brigade is a special force including artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage troops. The strength is about 5,000 people! Compared with the standing division, the infantry brigade under the independent mixed brigade has only three infantry squadrons.
The subordinate brigade of the standing division lost one squadron, and the infantry artillery squad was cancelled.
At the same time, the independent mixed brigade has a cavalry brigade and an artillery brigade. Compared with the Eighth Route Army, its combat effectiveness is not weak. The artillery brigade has four Type 41 75mm mountain guns and eight Type 38 75mm field guns, which can provide firepower of more than 5 kilometers.
Strike deep!
Given the condition of the artillery company, it would not be able to resist the Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery at all. As long as the artillery company dared to expose its position, it would be covered by Japanese artillery fire.
After learning the relevant information from Li Yunlong, Liu Gen felt particularly heavy. Damn, how should we fight this? Unless we can find the mortars and infantry in the hands of the artillery company less than two kilometers away from the Japanese artillery position.
Only artillery can pose a threat to the Japanese artillery positions! And does the artillery company have such a chance? Liu Gen felt a little doubtful.
After leaving the regiment headquarters and returning to the artillery company, Liu Gen looked solemn. He also knew that the people fighting the independent regiment would not be the Japanese from the brigade, but at most a Japanese brigade, but Liu Gen still felt deeply powerless.
The condition of the artillery company was such that it could not easily pose a threat to the Japanese artillery.
Looking at the soldiers who were training in the artillery company, Liu Gen smiled bitterly. He was not going to tell the soldiers such information, which really made people feel a little desperate. Even Liu Gen had enough confidence in himself and thought that his
Their artillery skills are not inferior to the elite artillery of the Japs, but they are not sure that they can defeat the Japs' artillery with their artillery batteries.
After training with the soldiers of the artillery company, Liu Gen calmed down after a while. He found that he had been thinking too much. The battle between the independent regiment and the Japanese would only be guerrilla warfare, and they would not choose to fight the Japanese head-on.
The Japanese dispatched such a large number of troops to fight the Japanese directly. With Li Yunlong around, the Independent Regiment would not be able to survive.
Knowing that there would be no head-on collision with the Japanese artillery, Liu Gen breathed a sigh of relief. It was not that he had the ambition of the Japanese, nor was he afraid of the Japanese. It was because the mortars were engaged in an artillery battle with the Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery. The chance of victory was too small.
Some! Perhaps even before they were within the range of the mortars, the Japanese discovered the artillery battery and directly launched a long-distance bombardment. The artillery battery was unable to withstand it at all.
If Liu Gen also had mountain artillery and field artillery, he would not have much fear when facing the Japanese artillery. But unfortunately, Liu Gen did not have mountain artillery and field artillery. In the 386 Brigade, there were not many mountain artillery and field artillery.
, let alone being in an independent group.
After instructing the squad leader to continue training with the soldiers, Liu Gen was wandering around. He needed to seriously think about what the artillery company should do in the next battle. The artillery company had a lot of mortars. Originally, there were three
In addition to the five sects transferred by Li Yunlong, there are eight sects in total.
The number of mortars is enough, but the number of artillery shells is not enough. If the artillery is fired with full force, all the artillery shells may be used in just a few rounds! Zhang Dabiao and others on the front line are constantly fighting with the Japanese, and seizures do not count.
There are many, but as for the cannonballs, there are none at all.
In other words, the mortar shells could not be replenished in a short period of time, and Liu Gen was troubled by this problem.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
There were shouts of killing and the sound of horse hooves not far away. Liu Gen looked forward and could see soldiers from a cavalry company training hard in the open space not far away. Among them, a man with a beard looked
The man who appeared to be forty years old and had short hair caught Liu Gen's attention.
Among a group of young soldiers, this man seemed particularly conspicuous. Liu Gen's eyes lit up. Is this Sun Desheng, whom Li Yunlong bought from the New Regiment in exchange for five machine guns?
Looking at the cavalry company in training, Liu Gen found that the training of the cavalry company soldiers was very good, and they could clearly feel their edge. The combat skills of the soldiers were very well trained, and the distance between them to kill the enemy should be
It's not far away, and there should be a lot of credit attributed to Sun Desheng.
"Captain Liu?" When Liu Gen was observing the cavalry company, Sun Desheng, who was leading the training of the soldiers, saw Liu Gen. He knew Liu Gen, but he never had much interaction with Liu Gen.
Unlike Liu Gen, Sun Desheng's cavalry company has not yet been trained, and Li Yunlong will naturally not let it participate in any combat missions. This makes Sun Desheng not appear at the regiment headquarters many times. But even so, Sun Desheng knows Liu Gen.
It is true that the achievements achieved by Liu Gen and his artillery company were too dazzling.
In the independent regiment, there are almost no soldiers who do not know that Liu Gen, the commander of the artillery company, destroyed the Bantian regiment headquarters with one shot, blew up the Japanese artillery position in the Battle of Getong Mountain, raided Wanjia Town, and destroyed the Japanese stronghold with infantry artillery.
Liu Gen, the commander of the artillery company, was present in these battles. How could the soldiers not notice Liu Gen?